Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific

A new discovery
of a massive amount of plastic floating in the South Pacific is yet
another piece of bad news in the fight against ocean plastic pollution.
This patch was recently discovered by Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Research Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to solving the issue of marine plastic pollution.

Moore, who was the first one to discover the famed North Pacific
garbage patch in 1997, estimates this zone of plastic pollution could be
upwards of a million square miles in size. (Read: A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn’t Recycled.)